[Coco] How much memory (Forth/Flex)

[Frank Swygert]

I stand corrected! FLEX is indeed what I meant. I had to do a little research, but only had to go as far as "Tandy's Little Wonder". There's an interview with Frank Hogg in there that has some info on his pushing FLEX. I actually interviewed him on the phone and recorded the conversation, wrote the article from that.

No multi-tasking... but it was difficult to do that with 64K anyway. FLEX was pretty basic, but still a true DOS and much more than DECB. I remember CP/M from an old Cromemco that was still operating at one of the USAF bases. I played with it a bit, but it wasn't being used anymore in 1987. Had a search and rescue plotting program still on it.

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Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 10:50:38 -0500
From: Aaron Wolfe<aawolfe at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Coco] How much memory

I think you might have said "forth" when you meant "FLEX".   I've been
reading through the 68 Micro Journal and F. Hogg was a big proponent
of FLEX.  AFAIK, normal FLEX does not do multitasking and is a much
more spartan/basic system than even OS9 L1.  I've been playing with
FLEX on the FPGA (John Kent's System09).  It feels a lot like CPM.

There were some enhanced FLEX systems that could multitask and offered
more features.. UniFLEX was one I think.  Don't know much about them
but I've read the ads, they sound interesting.

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